Sociologie du travail

Professional identities and legitimacy challenged by a managerial approach : The Belgian judicial system - C. Vigour

Sociologie du travail — 2009-10-12T15:48:00Z

Cécile Vigour
Institut d'études politiques, domaine universitaire, 11, allée Ausone, 33607 Pessac cedex, France
Available online 12 October 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.06.025
Abstract
The conditions prevailing in Belgium, at the time a managerial approach was approved and introduced into its judicial system, are analyzed in this article along with the limitations and consequences for the legal professions. Belgian judicial culture has long been hostile to (…)

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How mechanisms implicated in the collective process of academic hiring in France affect discrimination - C. Musselin, F. Pigeyre

Sociologie du travail — 2009-10-06T16:19:00Z

Christine Musselin
Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po and CNRS), 19, rue Amélie, 75007 Paris, France
Frédérique Pigeyre
EA 2354, institut de recherche en gestion, université Paris-12–Val-de-Marne, place de la Porte-des-Champs, route de Choisy, 94010 Créteil cedex, France
Available online 6 October 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.06.021
Abstract
How may procedures in effect for hiring junior professors in France affect discrimination against (…)

- Volume 51, Supplement 2

Legitimation by standards : Transnational experts, the European Commission and regulation of novel foods - D. Demortain

Sociologie du travail — 2009-10-06T15:52:00Z

David Demortain
ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London, United Kingdom
Available online 6 October 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.06.022
Abstract
How do voluntary standards get put to use in European Union policy ? A study of how a particular private-sector voluntary standard was imported and developed for use in EU policy offers grounds for interpreting the power relations (…)

- Volume 51, Supplement 2

French deputies, their assistants and the uses of staff appropriations : A sociology of political work - P. Le Lidec

Sociologie du travail — 2009-10-05T16:28:00Z

Patrick Le Lidec
CNRS, CERSA, 10, rue Thénard, 75005 Paris, France
Available online 6 October 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.06.023
Abstract
This analysis focuses on how members of Parliament in France organize their staff. The way deputies distribute the tasks among their assistants suggests that the organization and division of labor should be understood mainly in relation to the pressures generated by MPs in their home district, since a seat in the National (…)

- Volume 51, Supplement 2

In the “activity square” : International perspectives on labor, work and activity - C. Licoppe

Sociologie du travail — 2009-10-04T16:38:00Z

Christian Licoppe
Department of Social Science, Institut Telecom, Telecom Paris Tech, 46, rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France
Available online 6 October 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.06.024
Abstract
This article describes the particular “space” where research focuses on work as it actually takes place, and aims to characterize the way various ethnographic approaches to labor are evolving at the international level. That workspace is a “square” delineated by four (…)

- Volume 51, Supplement 2